Young Turks

The Young Turks were a political reform movement in the Ottoman Empire that sought to replace the absolute monarchy of Turkey with a constitutional monarchy. The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 saw Abdulhamid II be overthrown and political and military reforms be enacted, but liberal and pro-decentralization Young Turks formed the Freedom and Accord Party while the nationalists formed the Committee of Union and Progress. The CUP seized power in the Raid on the Sublime Porte in 1913 and their "Three Pashas" ruled the country until the end of World War I in 1918. They were responsible for perpetrating the Armenian Genocide, Greek Genocide, and Assyrian Genocide during the war, as well as for allying with the German Empire and joining the Central Powers in the war.